Linden Hills and the Myth of the Black Middle Class

We're back! We have a new name! We have a beautiful camera (thanks Allie!!) We have beautiful mics (so sorry about the levels they are already better for the next episode. Also, THANKS ALLIE!!)

In 2025 I read Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor and it might have fundamentally changed my life? I was disappointed by the lack of digital fodder out in the world about it so I did what any Black girl does and made the fodder I wanted to see. Naylor does one of the most comprehensive yet accessible and fantastical critiques of the Black middle class that I have ever seen. And the critiques within the critiques go on for days - she comes after misogyny, respectability, colorism you name it. Point blank period it is an absolute masterpiece and needs to be in more conversations where it is celebrated as such.

If you want to skip past the PIES we start talking about the book at around 34:17.

You should definitely purchase this book:
Linden Hills: https://bookshop.org/p/books/linden-h...
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See you next week! We'll be talking Grammys!